Hellzero

The pots on the P-Bass of your mate are American CTS, but the codes to date them are under the solders... Only the very first examples of the JV series had American pots, but they were branded Fender and not Squier.

https://vintagejapanguitars.com/fender-japan-1982-catalogue/

@rhokuza, your bass wasn't made the same day, only the neck was, so you can't compare the two basses as they may be different models. 😉

That's good for sure.

Sad news, my deepest condolences to the family.

High distortion amps, just kidding. It's, in a very simplified way, a class C and a class B amp working together, giving a better efficiency at the price of added distortion, but if they managed to control the distortion, they can indeed become very powerful...

Okay, I get it. I would say no as quite often these contain huge amounts of sugar. I prefer to use these extracts as gemmotherapy (buds therapy) as it's way more efficient. This is the brand I use as gemmotherapy, and you only need 5 to 15 drops a day: https://www.easypara.co.uk/blackcurrant-bioes-30ml-herbalgem.html

As I wrote, if the shielding is not fully grounded, it's totally useless...

Sorry I don't get the second phrase...

Humbuckers are supposed to be wired in series. Your body is acting like the biggest antenna around and if your shielding isn't fully grounded, it's totally useless, meaning you'll still amplify the local radios, electrical parasites, routers, anything with a PWM supply, neons, ...

That's correct too, but those were all the real JV's first years, so 1982 and up to somewhere in 1983, then they switched to fully Japanese stuff.

Everything depends on your type of 1982 Jazz Bass. Is it a JV series? When yes, only the pickups were American, so indeed with cloth wires, but the remaining wires were mainly plastic types, but sometimes fully cloth, hey, that's Fender. I own a 1982 Squier JV Stratocaster that still has the sticker on the pickguard saying "Pick up made in USA". When no, the pickups were Japanese with only plastic wires all over. The pots on yours are Japanese period correct models.

Russ, the Christie's live auctions are worldwide, so my thought implies the same coverage meaning it must be a worldwide action.

To me these delirious prices paid are simply the proof that solutions to definitely solve starvation, poverty and in the end all problems in the world do exist: Tax these wealthy people a lot more than they are and redistribute everything as nobody needs to own millions of grounds.

The four last items got the 100% hammer price, so £100000.

You can add black currant to your list, an excellent natural anti-inflammatory, stronger than turmeric that you have to use with black pepper if you want it to have an anti-inflammatory effect otherwise it will only turn everything yellow and that's it.

And for those interested, the link to gear's list with their selling price: https://www.christies.com/en/auction/jeff-beck-the-guitar-collection-30401/

Some people really don't live in this world... https://www.youtube.com/live/lOYPOgbDzvc?feature=shared

In fact, these pickups are the same as the original ones with the visible magnets, only the casing is different. 😉 @itu I also still have this EMG magnetic viewing film that was kindly offered to me by Rob Turner himself when I said I was desperately trying to buy one during a Frankfurt Musik Messe way back in the late 80's. Great memories. 😊

Excellent remark Tony. 👍

It's the principle of crook, scam or screw and they are no joke listings at all, but real attempts to fool people.

You'll find a lot of information through Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20040606235231/http://n.mercadal.free.fr/html/english/start.htm

Benedetti have been using samarium cobalt magnets on sole higher end pickups, just like the ones made for Leduc. Vigier models like the ones pictured are derived from the standard series and were wound like a P-90 or a Jazzmaster pickup. There was quite a lot of information on the original website, but I think everything is gone now.

It's the crook from Cologne aka music-outlet-shop. Now after polluting eBay with all his garbage, he's trying to find fools on Reverb.

I just wanted to clarify my just above statement: If I wrote that, it's because I stated just before that the instruments in the 1962 catalogue(s) have been photographed before the printing, so probably the quarter before that assessing Leo Fender statement. And if I typed in capitals, it's because I used the codes of fora writing, meaning I was screaming this too many times repeated assertion that some people seem to ignore. So please before my lapidation, read exactly what I wrote and you'll understand that we are just debating about the exact same thing, but a little argument, which can become very important if it's linked to money. Furthermore, the first thing I look at with vintage instruments are always solders, and then the never showed clearly screws as Fender has been using different types over different periods. Old leaded tin solders are prone to oxidation, it's a fact not subject to discussion, which means a 60 years old or more solder can't be super shiny, but tarnished looking with the flux around it looking darkish brown and not brightly orangish. If it's super shiny, it's been redone. Some fakers even go to the next level soldering the wires for their assembly deep inside the cotton (cloth) wires as you can push them back a very long way. Also, the non light exposed parts of the instruments must look more vivid than the exposed ones, except if the clear coat has been removed. Furthermore, a lot of the instruments I see have a huge relic on them and are as shiny as a mirror: where has all the cigarettes tar gone, because if they are in such a used condition they must have been played in the blue fog bars and venues... So as @Burns-bass said, I'm only doing this to avoid people here being scammed by unscrupulous sellers. I'll end up with the very difficult to authenticate transitional period instruments: If you're not 100% sure of the authenticity of the instruments, go see elsewhere and let somebody else get screwed. And if you've never seen a twin stacked knobs 1962 Jazz Bass, it's because it had been replaced by the 3 knobs version. Now, if you still want that list of books, I can compile it for you. I can help, but not at the price I have to pay each time I'm doing it.